FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Q3/2011
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September
2011. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2011. This
quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next major
version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which is to be released by then end of this
year.
Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.
Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
between October and December 2011 is January 15th, 2012.
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Projects
* GELI status update
* HAST (Highly Available Storage) status update
* pfSense
* Tool for providing FreeBSD VM Images
* ZFSguru
* ZRouter.org project -- a FreeBSD-based firmware for embedded
devices
FreeBSD Team Reports
* Ports Collection
* The FreeBSD Foundation
* The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
Network Infrastructure
* 802.11n / atheros
* DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence
(DIFFUSE)
* Ethernet Switch Framework
Kernel
* The new CARP
* VM layer for allocations larger than a page
Documentation
* Doc sprint on IRC, September 5, 2011
* The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
* The FreeBSD Greek Documentation Project
* The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
Architectures
* FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Armada XP
* FreeBSD/powerpc on AppliedMicro APM86290
Ports
* FreeBSD Haskell Ports
* KDE-FreeBSD
* OpenAFS port
* Portmaster
Miscellaneous
* bsd_day(2011)
* EuroBSDcon 2011
* FreeBSD Developer Summit, Maarssen
Google Summer of Code
* Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi
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802.11n / atheros
URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AdrianChadd/AtherosTxAgg
Contact: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
AR5416, AR9160, and AR9280 functions in both station and hostap mode.
Performance is good.
Software retry of frames is implemented. Aggregation is implemented.
BAR TX is not yet handled. HT protection is not implemented; neither is
MIMO powersave.
Open tasks:
1. BAR TX
2. MIMO powersave
3. Correct handling of flushing TX queues during interface
reset/reconfigure
4. Correct handling of 20<->20/40mhz transitions (without dropping
frames)
5. More intelligent rate control
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bsd_day(2011)
URL: http://bsdday.eu/2011
Contact: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
The purpose of this one-day event was to gather Central European
developers of today's open-source BSD systems to popularize their work
and their organizations, and to meet each other in the real life. We
wanted to motivate potential future developers and users, especially
undergraduate university students, to work with BSD systems.
This year's BSD-Day was be held in Bratislava, Slovakia at Slovak
University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology on November 5, 2011.